Ron Broglio's research focuses on how
philosophy and aesthetics can help us rethink the relationship between
humans and the environment. His bookSurface Encounters:
Thinking with Animals and Art(University of Minnesota
Press, 2011) asks what is an animal phenomenology and how might it be thought through art. Technologies of the Picturesque:
British Art, Poetry, and Instruments 1750-1830 (Bucknell, 2008) considers the influence of technology
in British landscape aesthetics while. Current projects include a dairy cattle art installation, a book project on the animal revolution, and work synthesizing biopower in British Romantic labor class poetry and agriculture.